{"id":193785,"date":"2025-06-18T07:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T07:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/193785\/"},"modified":"2025-06-18T07:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T07:16:11","slug":"ex-ira-spy-mistakenly-sent-sensitive-teebane-massacre-information-by-legacy-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/193785\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-IRA spy mistakenly sent sensitive Teebane massacre information by legacy body"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Martin McGartland was kidnapped by the IRA but escaped \u2013 only to be shot by them years later, when in hiding. Now he wants answers, but isn\u2019t getting them\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Martin McGartland, who spied on the IRA for the RUC, photographed in 1997. Photo: Stuart Boulton\/Mirrorpix\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/d25c7531-c1e6-490f-8463-9c3032800d72.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Martin McGartland, who spied on the IRA for the RUC, photographed in 1997. Photo: Stuart Boulton\/Mirrorpix\/Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A former spy within the IRA has said that Northern Ireland\u2019s new Troubles investigation body is demanding sensitive details of his new identity, just weeks after it mistakenly sent him material about the Teebane massacre.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Sir Declan Morgan\u2019s Independent Commission for Reconciliation and Information Recovery (ICRIR), which is reinvestigating many Troubles attacks, did not dispute that it asked the spy in hiding to prove his location and admitted there had been a data breach, but played down its significance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Exclusive\u00a0|\u00a0 Martin McGartland was kidnapped by the IRA but escaped \u2013 only to be shot by them years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193786,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[22306,1144,1610,6410,11528,6568,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-193785","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-ira","9":"tag-northern-ireland","10":"tag-police-service-of-northern-ireland","11":"tag-sam-mcbride","12":"tag-sinn-fein","13":"tag-the-troubles","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114703144501493961","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193785\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}